Rygarius

Nerve Strike now causes a successful Kidney Shot or Cheap Shot to also reduce the damage dealt by player targets by 25% (down from 50% for player targets). No changes to the talent when used against non-player targets.

and Pummel now both share a 15-second cooldown when either ability is used. Disrupting Shout's 40-second cooldown remains unchanged but the ability will be unavailable for 15 seconds after using Pummel.

Charge now pins a target to the ground, rooting the target (used to stun the target) for 1.5 seconds and generates 20 Rage.

Talents

Warbringer now causes Charge to stun the target (used to cause Charge to root a target) for 3 seconds, reducing movement speed by 50% for 15 seconds, and generates 20 Rage.

Creatures

Celestials now drop Season 15 Prideful Gladiator gear in place of Season 14 Grievous Gladiator gear.

Rare spawns in Krasarang Wilds now award only when they are defeated for the first time each day.

PvP

Season 15 Prideful Gladiator gear, and weapons are now available for purchase.

Season 14 Grievous Gladiator gear and weapons can now be purchased using instead of .

Comments

Comment by Pektra

The following items sold by Mistweaver Ai on the Timeless Isle have been raised to item level 489 (up from item level 476). This change is retroactive to all items that had been purchased previously.

....What if we've upgraded their ilevels? O_o

Comment by perculia

on 2014-02-03T20:34:35-06:00

I imagine that they'd reflect the upgrades on top of their new base ilvl. I should purchase a weapon and then copy my character to see.

Comment by regma

on 2014-02-03T20:40:25-06:00

Well... toast.. I liked using both of them. One after another.

Comment by Zombloat

on 2014-02-03T20:53:11-06:00

Well... toast.. I liked using both of them. One after another.

Agreed. It helped out quite a bit in PvE Raids and such. This kind of removes the usefulness of that Talent now...

Comment by Interest

on 2014-02-03T21:09:10-06:00

Well...looks like that Warrior change got reverted.

Comment by Magmy

on 2014-02-03T21:12:11-06:00

The following items sold by Mistweaver Ai on the Timeless Isle have been raised to item level 489 (up from item level 476). This change is retroactive to all items that had been purchased previously.

....What if we've upgraded their ilevels? O_o

The base ilvl is getting upgraded, so your upgrades will be put on top of the new base ilvl. They're just buffing the current weapons, they're not being replaced.

TL;DR Upgraded will be 489->493->497.

Comment by Rankkor

on 2014-02-03T22:53:55-06:00

Well...looks like that Warrior change got reverted.

lol, that certainly didn't last long.

Comment by Interest

on 2014-02-04T01:13:04-06:00

Well...looks like that Warrior change got reverted.

lol, that certainly didn't last long.

No kidding. It was probably a mix of people not wanting Warriors getting their 3 second stun back and Warriors who don't want to be forced into a talent for PvP effectiveness.

Comment by Razordash

on 2014-02-04T05:26:09-06:00

No warrior in their right mind would take warbringer in the first place if it had a 3 second stun, the draw back to shockwaves stun just doesn't make it worth taking. Warbringer needs some other benefit in my opinion besides rooting and stunning, perhaps damaging or even knocking the target back? but so far it's not a very popular talent.

I'm also glad they pulled back on regular charges rooting the targets only. I would hate to be in a situation where the tank was kiting a powerful add and I end up rooting the add long enough for it to kill me or someone else.

Comment by burningeagles

on 2014-02-04T09:38:27-06:00

Why did you have to change back blizz! I liked the idea of another class without a baseline stun that's not a dk.

Comment by TickleMeThrall

on 2014-02-04T09:42:33-06:00

Still no date on Season 15.

Comment by LEKB

on 2014-02-04T14:34:40-06:00

If they've already been upgraded then it will keep the upgrade when the patch goes live.

Comment by Osskaar2

on 2014-02-06T01:31:05-06:00

Warriors nerfed, (*&^ yeah!

Comment by Adamsm

on 2014-02-06T01:45:37-06:00

Warriors nerfed, (*&^ yeah!

May want to re-read that.

Comment by Interest

on 2014-02-06T02:23:05-06:00

Still no date on Season 15.

Well they gave a "soon" on the end of S14, so....I guess within the month? Idk.

Comment by angelspike

on 2014-02-06T23:22:06-06:00

ah bless didn't take long for the ranged numptys to start qqing about warriors

Comment by Rankkor

on 2014-02-06T23:40:41-06:00

Still no date on Season 15.

they just did.

Season 14 ends in two weeks, then there's a 1 week waiting period while they calculate the rewards for your rating, and then season 15 starts.

Warriors nerfed, #$%& yeah!

Actually, its the opposite. They had been nerfed, then the nerf got reversed.

They went into great details about it. Basically warriors had too many interrupts, between pummel, Disrupting Shout, Charge, and their two different stuns (Dragon Roar/Shock Wave and Storm Bolt) which was kinda imbalanced against casters. They intended to nerf their anti-caster prowess with the charge nerf, but ended up damaging too much their mobility, so they did a compromise.

Reversed the Charge nerf, and instead applied a shared CD between pummel and disrupting shout.

Comment by Interest

on 2014-02-07T00:43:29-06:00

Still no date on Season 15.

they just did.

Season 14 ends in two weeks, then there's a 1 week waiting period while they calculate the rewards for your rating, and then season 15 starts.

Oh snap. Dunno if I'll have much to do anyways regardless of the season change.

Comment by lodimas

on 2014-02-07T10:49:39-06:00

With the new warrior changes, the only viable use for disrupting shout is in a situation where two or more targets are both in range and casting. Or when you need a interrupt while bladestorming which, tbh, shouldn't be a thing anyway.

This a quite a rare scenario and even rarer in a PvP environment, which is the driving force behind this change.

With this in mind, no warrior is going to be taking that talent anymore. Which is against the whole ethos of MoP's talent system. The other options: AoE hamstring; little to no use honestly. AoE snare; The new viable talent option here.

If they are going ahead with this change shouldn't we be seeing a change to the talent in its entirety? I don't feel like this is a well thought out change and no other classes come to mind where a talent serves such specific and rare scenarios.

Discuss.

Comment by zookni

on 2014-02-10T08:55:09-06:00

They will not bother to change disrupting shout probably since its the last patch before the new expansion. Massive talent changes will probably (and hopefully, since tbh it really makes disrupting shout useless and staggering shout would be viable only if it wouldn't require a snare effect on the target already) happen then.

Warrior is still going to be one of the best damage dealer in arena if the player is not too bad.

The main problem with this patch right now that it looks like blizzard is okay with frostmages being op, as well as a lot of other casters (even healers like holy priests) that don't really have to cast anything aside from instant spells which kinda kills pvp. Atm the only casters which actually do have to cast stuff to kill are just destro warlocks, everything else blows you up with instants... Pvp used to be about action-reaction and quickness, now it is more like a "who can press more buttons and crit more" game. I seriously hope that blizzard will at least try to change that in WoD.